Labor Week

UNITED STATES—Black Friday 2017 has come and gone avid shoppers. However, I want to recount for all of you how the Black Friday aka Black Thursday shopping experience was for me. Yes, it’s a tradition in my family which we’ve honored for like the past 20 years. So we are professors if you say of the importance of getting...

UNITED STATES—I haven’t talked about this incident because I wanted to wait and see how things would unfold because it was not only a major scar on the United States, but the UCLA Basketball team. Why? Well, it never looks good when a scandal transpires, but it’s worse when the scandal involves a well-known sports team in another country. When...

UNITED STATES—America we work too much. I mean I have heard about so many recent studies in the past few weeks that have revealed that Americans are working more and more, but making less and less. To make the situation even worse is the realization that we are not taking our personal holidays or vacations, and for those who...

UNITED STATES—I was absolutely stunned to realize we’re entering our second week, perhaps third week of November depending on who you speak to and I have not yet seen those infamous Red Kettles from the Red Cross. I love the holidays, especially the months between September and December. For the oddest reason, it seems to be the one time...

UNITED STATES—The biggest shopping day of the year is fast-approaching us. For those not in the know, I’m referring to Black Friday or what has somewhat shifted to Black Thursday. For years, this is the day where those retailers who have struggled all year to turn those numbers that are in the red to black. Retailers can make so...

UNITED STATES—The holiday season is fast approaching, with Halloween behind us, people should be aware that Thanksgiving is literally less than 2 weeks away. What does that mean? It’s time to start preparing! Some people might say, well what exactly does that mean? It means if you are hosting the big Thanksgiving festivities there is no time like the...

HOLLYWOOD—Many of you may not know this, and by the time that you read this column it may already be too late. Why? Well, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 was Election Day for many places across the United States, however, not many people head to the polls when the option to elect the next President of the United States is...

UNITED STATES—I’ve always asked myself the question at times, at what age should a child begin to take on adult responsibilities? Should it be as soon as they become a teenager, mid-teens, at the age of 18 or perhaps when they turn 21? It has been argued that starting the notion of responsibilities at an early age is a...

UNITED STATES—Saving money is not easy, but it all starts with the individual having a bit of discipline and resisting temptation. I always tell people you have to respect money to a degree in order to properly save. Some of you might be asking exactly what does that mean, “respect money?” It means you have to treat money like...

UNITED STATES—As a fan of horror, I have been asked countless times about my enjoyment of the genre. It sometimes annoys me, but at the same time I think it is a great question to enlighten people about the genre that so many consider drenched with violence, blood and gore. And to a large degree that is true, but...